Three indirect tasks assessing implicit threat associations and behavioral response tendencies test-retest reliability and validity

Journal of Psychology

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 4-11

  Reinecke, Andrea ^a   Becker, Eni S ^b   Rinck, Mike ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Implicit associations; Indirect tasks; Reliability; Threat; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952475661     PISSN: 00443409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0044-3409/a000002     Document Type: Article

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